SCOOP: Warsh is considering reducing the number of policy meetings the Fed holds each year. He raised the idea at this week's meeting, according to four people with knowledge of the situation
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If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: The stock market is not the economy. Except, right now, maybe it is? A.I. is driving the market. The market is driving spending and investment (much of it on A.I.). But what happens if it all comes crashing down? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/b...
A.I. Is Lifting Markets and the Economy and Raising Risks for Both (Gift Article)
Investment in artificial intelligence and related companies is lifting the stock market and spending across the economy.
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🚨DATA ALERT🚨 I started a 🤓 newsletter w/ @caitlingilbert.bsky.social & @jdharden.bsky.social, check it out if you wanna go down some fun data rabbit holes unrelated to our day jobs 🧵 wrongnumber.beehiiv.com
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very very excited to be launching Wrong Number with my buds @christinezhang.bsky.social and @jdharden.bsky.social! It’s a newsletter dedicated to all of our weird data obsessions: our first posts cover Law & Order, trees, and theme park accidents wrongnumber.beehiiv.com/p/about-wron...
About ‘Wrong Number’
What this newsletter is, who we are, and why we named it that.
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We asked more than 3,000 voters in battleground states for the main reason behind their support for these Senate candidates. VIa @christinezhang.bsky.social, Caroline Soler and Ruth Igielnik www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
🚨NYC PRECINCT MAPS feat. 6 House races: 3 districts where Mamdani endorsed: 7 (Valdez), 10 (Lander), 13 (Avila Chevalier) + 3 key races elsewhere in NYC: 6 (Meng), 9 (Clarke), 12 (Lasher) By Alex Lemonides, Caroline Soler, Evan Reynolds +me 🎁 Link: nyti.ms/4g19V6d www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
See Where Mamdani’s Slate of House Hopefuls Did Best
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MAP: precinct results (preliminary) of the L.A. mayor’s race 🎁 link —> nyti.ms/4g9g0NI w/ Alex Lemonides, Caroline Soler, Matt Bloch & @shawnhubler.bsky.social
See Where the L.A. Mayoral Candidates Have Done Best So Far (Gift Article)
A map of early returns shows where coalitions have formed in the race between Karen Bass, Spencer Pratt and Nithya Raman.
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📊 The https://fivethirtyeightindex.com/ database has expanded to include 13,000 charts and 3,000 illustrations clawed out of the site's HTML and saved individually in a new archive.org collection. https://fivethirtyeightindex.com/graphics/ […] [Original post on mastodon.palewi.re]
Stephen I. Miran submits his resignation as a member of the Federal Reserve Board, effective when or shortly before his successor on the Board is sworn in: www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p...
Stephen I. Miran submits his resignation as a member of the Federal Reserve Board, effective when or shortly before his successor on the Board is sworn in
Stephen I. Miran submitted his resignation Thursday as a member of the Federal Reserve Board, effective when or shortly before his successor on the Board is sw
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@palewi.re has created an index of all the FiveThirtyEight articles that are preserved on the Internet Archive. Very useful: fivethirtyeightindex.com
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An index of every fivethirtyeight.com article preserved by the Internet Archive.
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Powell's tenure is not over just yet. Because Warsh has not been sworn in, Powell will serve as chair pro tempore, the Fed said on Friday. Bowman and Miran say they didn't support the temporary designation
NEW: Warsh wants regime change at the Fed and missteps during Powell's tenure made the central bank vulnerable to that kind of criticism But an assessment of Powell's 8 yrs as chair points to a far more constructive legacy than Warsh portrays www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u... @nytimes.com
It’s Jerome Powell’s last day as Fed chair. My charticle on the economy (and the Fed) that Kevin Warsh, his successor, is inheriting 📈📉📊💸 GIFT LINK —> nyti.ms/3PMdFh3
The Economy That Kevin Warsh, the Federal Reserve’s New Chair, Is Inheriting (Gift Article)
The incoming chair of the Fed will need to navigate a delicate economic moment, a president who wants to lower rates and an increasingly divisive leadership committee.
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The Economy That Kevin Warsh, the Federal Reserve’s New Chair, Is Inheriting
The incoming chair of the Fed will need to navigate a delicate economic moment, a president who wants to lower rates and an increasingly divisive leadership committee.
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"It’s very clear that the balance sheet cannot be immediately reduced without causing a liquidity crunch that nobody would like," says Darrell Duffie at Stanford. "Both the plan and the execution are going to make the difference between failure and success."
In other Fed news, my latest on how Warsh plans to shrink the central bank's footprint in financial markets www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/u... @nytimes.com
on the cutting room floor of our Virginia precincts analysis: a *map* of the referendum results & 2024 prez results along proposed district lines we contextualize these results in the article 🎁 link: nyti.ms/4sLUktJ
We looked the precinct level results in VA’s redistricting referendum & what they can tell us about how “yes” eked out a narrow victory www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
For a moment on Friday, Kevin Warsh was on a glide path to becoming the next Fed chair But within the hour, his pathway narrowed about as quickly as it had emerged, as the DOJ vowed to appeal a ruling that thwarted an investigation into the central bank www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b... @nytimes.com
Justice Dept. Legal Threat Complicates Trump’s Pick for Fed Chair
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Rough count of Epstein consequences so far: ▶️ 20 lost jobs (Europe and U.S.) ▶️ 4 arrested, charged and/or under criminal investigation (Europe) Follow along as we track the Epstein fallout (GIFT LINK) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
After the Epstein Files Release, Who Has Resigned, Been Fired or Is Being Investigated? (Gift Article)
This list will be updated and includes people who have faced concrete consequences, such as the loss of their position, as a result of their connection to Jeffrey Epstein.
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Attention visual journalists: I’m always open to pitches for @sciam.bsky.social’s Graphic Science column. The column tells concise stories on topics in science via graphics (dataviz, illustrated diagrams, comic-style explainers, etc). It appears in both print & online. DM me for a pitch guide.
The Post was foolish enough to unleash a bevy of the world’s most talented multi-disciplinary journalists out there for their competition to scoop up. These are some of the most hard working and skilled people I know. Save this one and reshare it please! 📊
So many incredible journalists got laid off today. Heroes, mentors, friends. Just an absolutely devastating day. Starting a thread here with some of their incredible work, and how to follow and support them.
.@votebeat.org is hiring a Senior National Reporter to cover issues of voting and democracy in 2026 and beyond. Reach out if you're interested in applying, we're a great place to work! workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...
Recruitment
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NEW: How many books did you read this year? If it was more than 2, congrats: you read more than the median American. Read on for way more @today.yougov.com polling from me on America's book-reading habits in 2025. 1/
EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43
U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
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Nice piece here from Nick Corasaniti and @christinezhang.bsky.social on the voting case SCOTUS agreed to hear that is getting less coverage than Callais — but is coming up quickly www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
How the Supreme Court’s Mail-In Ballot Ruling Could Affect Voters
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📊YEAR IN CHARTS📉📈 I pulled together 14 charts to summarize the trends that shaped business and the economy in 2025 My 3rd time in a row doing a year in charts for DealBook, this edition is the most robust one yet in both charts & text! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/b... 🎁 link nyti.ms/3LdhNo3
From A.I. to Tariffs, 14 Charts That Explain 2025
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